ImageMagick before 6.9.13-58 and 7.x before 7.1.2-33 Heap Buffer Overflow via X11 Animate

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    "title": "ImageMagick before 6.9.13-58 and 7.x before 7.1.2-33 Heap Buffer Overflow via X11 Animate",
    "summary": "ImageMagick before 6.9.13-58 and 7.x before 7.1.2-33 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the X11 animate operation when processing crafted images. Attackers can supply a malicious image that, when a user runs an X11 animate operation on it, overwrites heap memory and can crash the application.",
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